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WEEKLY NEWS DIGEST
June 23 - June 28, 2003
-- June 23
++ American newspapers / magazines
A courtly grace
Exhibition at Getty illuminates the powerful nature of Flemish manuscript
painting
(Los Angeles Times)
http://makeashorterlink.com/?P2CD26A15
++ British newspapers / magazines
Ten tonnes of gold and a tonne of trouble
Archaeological experts fear that the salvage of a 17th-century British wreck
may risk heritage
(The Guardian)
http://www.guardian.co.uk/arts/news/story/0,11711,983082,00.html
City museum a step closer
A new city museum for Leeds has moved a step closer with the appointment of
a design team for the project
(BBC News)
http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/england/west_yorkshire/3014550.stm
-- June 24
++ American newspapers / magazines
British Museum Heads to Calmer Waters
With the National Gallery cruising along smoothly, Tate Britain and Tate
Modern drawing big crowds, and the Victoria and Albert Museum once again in
vogue, the British Museum has stood out of late as the "sick man" of
London's great museums. Even praise for its resplendent new glass-covered
Great Court was soon overshadowed by budget deficits, staff cuts, closed
galleries and an unprecedented one-day strike
(New York Times)
http://www.nytimes.com/2003/06/24/arts/design/24BRIT.html
African-American Museum closer to reality after clearing Senate
More than 70 years after it was first proposed, a museum dedicated to black
history and culture is close to congressional approval as part of the
Smithsonian Institution
(San Francisco Chronicle)
http://makeashorterlink.com/?R1ED24A15
Vatican puts museum collection online in bid to attract tourists, spread the
Gospel
(San Francisco Chronicle)
http://makeashorterlink.com/?P2FD53A15
++ British newspapers / magazines
Looted Schiele landscape sells for £12m
A landscape painting looted by the Nazis fetched a record £12m at auction in
London yesterday
(The Guardian)
http://www.guardian.co.uk/arts/news/story/0,11711,983916,00.html
Wellcome to the House of Strange
As one of the world's most eccentric and eclectic collections goes on show
at the British Museum, we look at the background to the weird hoard of Henry
Solomon Wellcome
(The Times)
http://search.thetimes.co.uk/cgi-bin/ezk2srch?-aSTART#
Museum aims for female recruits
The National Railway Museum is flying in the face of stereotype to launch an
appeal for more female volunteers
(BBC News)
http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/england/north_yorkshire/3017128.stm
Search for art great's lost works
Staff at a Cumbria museum say valuable paintings by artist Kurt Schwitters
could be gathering dust in houses across the Lake District
(BBC News)
http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/england/cumbria/3015914.stm
-- June 25
++ American newspapers / magazines
Museum changes afoot here, abroad
Visitors looking for certain works by John Singleton Copley, James McNeill
Whistler, Mary Cassatt, Winslow Homer and Georgia O'Keeffe, among other
artists, will need to go to a new address when Chicago's Terra Museum of
American Art closes its doors on North Michigan Avenue in late October next
year
(Los Angeles Times)
http://makeashorterlink.com/?N32E54A15
++ British newspapers / magazines
RA showcases art of Nazi victim Kirchner
They call him the German Picasso, but until now the Anglo-Saxon world has
remained stiffly immune to the genius of Ernst Ludwig Kirchner
(The Guardian)
http://www.guardian.co.uk/arts/news/story/0,11711,984254,00.html
Michelangelo masterpiece goes online
Tourists have been known to topple over backwards on to the marble floor
while torturing their necks to study every detail of the ceiling of the
Sistine Chapel
(The Guardian)
http://www.guardian.co.uk/arts/news/story/0,11711,984523,00.html
New life for Berlin museum
Renovation work is to begin on Berlin's Neues Museum, one of the city's last
remaining war ruins
(BBC News)
http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/entertainment/3019588.stm
British Museum's rare cup coup
A rare gold cup from the Bronze Age has been secured for display by the
British Museum
(BBC News)
http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/entertainment/3019034.stm
-- June 26
++ American newspapers / magazines
Obituary: Fred Sandback, Sculptor of Minimalist Installations, Dies at 59
Fred Sandback, a sculptor internationally known for his Minimalist works
made from lengths of colored yarn, died on Monday at his studio in New York.
He was 59
(New York Times)
http://www.nytimes.com/2003/06/26/obituaries/26SAND.html
Far away, so close
The South Asian immigrant experience is explored among the diverse offerings
at the four-day event known as ArtWallah.
(Los Angeles Times)
http://makeashorterlink.com/?V23E54A15
Van Goghs bring in the bucks
Three works by Dutch expressionist painter Vincent van Gogh, including a
long-lost pen-and-ink sketch, sold for more than $14 million Tuesday,
auction house Christie's said
(Los Angeles Times)
http://makeashorterlink.com/?H24E51A15
JFK nostalgia in Germany on 40th anniversary of famous Berlin speech
(San Francisco Chronicle)
http://makeashorterlink.com/?M25E13A15
Mourning Together
Jews and Arabs Journey to Auschwitz
(Aufbau - The Transatlantic Jewish Paper)
http://www.aufbauonline.com/2003/issue12/6.html
Spoil on Canvas
A Jewish Family Struggles to Reclaim Stolen Art
(Aufbau - The Transatlantic Jewish Paper)
http://www.aufbauonline.com/2003/issue12/15_1.html
++ British newspapers / magazines
Reclusive collector's treasures brought to London
It is the most staggering exhibition of the summer but no one at the
National Gallery is making too much of a fuss about the blockbuster show in
their midst.
(The Guardian)
http://www.guardian.co.uk/arts/news/story/0,11711,985241,00.html
-- June 27
++ American newspapers / magazines
A Dutch Showman, Celebrating the Body
Hendrick Goltzius (1558-1617), who has a big career retrospective - his
first - at the Metropolitan Museum, was one of the hottest of hot-shot Dutch
artists. He was also, despite a history of depression and a badly deformed
drawing hand, one of the busiest
(New York Times)
http://www.nytimes.com/2003/06/27/arts/design/27COTT.html
From Four Millenniums of Jewish Cultural
One of the appealing qualities about the Jewish Museum is its ability to
temper its gravitas by bringing humor - satire, even - to its shows and
collections
(New York Times)
http://www.nytimes.com/2003/06/27/arts/design/27GLUE.html
Chuckling Darkly at Disaster
In the famous self-portrait from 1927, Max Beckmann paints himself wearing a
tuxedo, one hand on hip, a cigarette dangling from the other. He stares
ahead, pugnacious, watchful, imperial, his head and torso framed by a window
behind him. The backlighting casts his eyes in shadow
(New York Times)
http://www.nytimes.com/2003/06/27/arts/design/27KIMM.html
American Indians in the Deep South
New Orleans exhibit focuses on people who lived under French and Spanish
rule before 1539, part of a larger show for the bicentennial of the
Louisiana Purchase
(Los Angeles Times)
http://makeashorterlink.com/?C36E53A15
S.F. park honors gay, lesbian Holocaust victims
Pink Triangle name based on symbol worn in death camps
(San Francisco Chronicle)
http://makeashorterlink.com/?P37E21A15
++ British newspapers / magazines
Chapman brothers win £25,000 prize
The Chapman brothers, the most studiedly shocking of the rapidly ageing
generation of young British artists, yesterday won the £25,000 Charles
Wollaston Award for the most distinguished work in the Royal Academy summer
exhibition
(The Guardian)
http://www.guardian.co.uk/arts/news/story/0,11711,986020,00.html
Bacterium restores glue-hidden fresco
Art restorers in Pisa have found that a bacterium can do the job no chemical
has managed to achieve: reveal part of a vast medieval fresco which was
covered with a layer of glue during an unfortunate restoration attempt half
a century ago
(The Guardian)
http://www.guardian.co.uk/arts/news/story/0,11711,986008,00.html
-- June 28
++ American newspapers / magazines
The Art of Recovery
In Iraq, an Exhibition to Counter Images of War and Loss
(Washington Post)
http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/articles/A43219-2003Jun27.html
Venice Biennale: Too much that was good on paper, was bad in practice
Intended to signal democracy, open-endedness and all-inclusiveness this was
more like an event headed by a curator reluctant to shoulder such a
herculean task on his own
(The Art Newspaper)
http://www.theartnewspaper.com/news/article.asp?idart=11183
De mortuis nihil nisi bonum?
An FBI detective points the finger at the former director now dead, of the
Isabella Stewart Gardner Museum
(The Art Newspaper)
http://www.theartnewspaper.com/news/article.asp?idart=11181
War-loot Schiele makes £12.6 million
(The Art Newspaper)
http://www.theartnewspaper.com/news/article.asp?idart=11180
Fiat ends sponsorship of Palazzo Grassi
After 17 years and 15 exhibitions the car manufacturers are withdrawing its
funding of major kunsthalle
(The Art Newspaper)
http://www.theartnewspaper.com/news/article.asp?idart=11179
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